A Snake in Your Bosom

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This podcast challenges categorization as a sleep aid, positioning itself instead as a space for practicing boredom together through Aesop's fables. Ron reads "The Woodman and the Serpent," a tale about kindness betrayed and the nature of wickedness.

• Clarification that this podcast is not designed to help listeners fall asleep
• Exploration of the difference between boredom and sleep as mental states
• Reading of Aesop's "The Woodman and the Serpent" fable
• Discussion of the moral "no gratitude from the wicked"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello.
Are you tired?
You will be.
You'll be very tired.
I'm about to read another fablefrom Aesop.
Who knows, I may read anotherone after this.

(00:32):
This podcast is not for you tofall asleep.
I don't know why they keepcategorizing my podcast and
grouping it with other podcaststhat are created to help you
rest peacefully.
I don't want that.
You don't want that.

(00:53):
How can you be tired if you'resleeping?
How can you be bored and beasleep at the same time?
That is our purpose.
We're practicing boredomtogether.

(01:13):
Let's enjoy this time.
The title is the Woodman and theSerpent Serpent.
One wintry day, a woodman wastramping home from his work when

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he saw something black lying inthe snow.
When he came closer he saw itwas a serpent, to all appearance
dead, but he took it up and putit in his bosom to warm while

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he hurried home.
As soon as he got indoors, heput the serpent down on the
hearth before the fire.
The children watched it and sawit slowly come to life again.
Then one of them stooped downto stroke it.
But the serpent raised its headand put out its fangs and was

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about to sting the child todeath.
So the woodman seized his axeand, with one stroke cut the
serpent in two.
Ah, said he, no gratitude fromthe wicked.

(02:49):
Hit that subscribe button.
Click on that fifth star.
Say your words of gratitude,because there is none from the

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wicked, thank you.